Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-Led Australian Pentecostal Congregations
Subtitle: imagining Identity in the Spirit
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9789004400252
Subjects: Public worship; Aboriginal australians
Description: Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)imagining Identity in the Spirit' provides an ethnographic account of three Australian Pentecostal congregations with Aboriginal senior leadership. Within this Pentecostalism, Dreaming realities and identities must be brought together with the Christian gospel. Yet current political and economic relationships with the Australian state complicate the possibilities of interactions between culture and Spirit. The result is a matrix or network of these churches stretching across Australia, with Black Australian Pentecostals resisting and accommodating the state through the construction of new and ancient identities. This work occurs most notably in context of the worship ritual, which functions through ritual interaction chains to energise the various social engagement programs these congregations sustain.